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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1902
Page
7
A state institution employee objects to a supposed voluntary $5 deduction for campaign purposes. The superintendent insists it is mandatory or loss of employment, calling it voluntary. Chicago Tribune notes the claim as coercive and misleading.
A fragment from the Chicago News quotes a wheezy organ and a Rev Flat Foot delivering a garbled sermon line about hospitality. The passage notes a crowd of strangers on a Sunday morning and ends with references to a decision by the deceased cons.
Mrs. Blanchard of Nashville Tennessee describes relief from backache dizziness and irregular painful menstruation after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports six bottles restored health and urges other women to try the remedy while noting doctors offered little help.
A titled lady regains health after a severe illness attributed to overwork painting watercolors. An elderly nurse’s remark about hysteria is dismissed as the doctor questions its cause, noting the artworks were all real beauties. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
A Turkish censor Nis hhan Effendi radically altered Shakespeare’s Othello during its Constantinople production. He erased Cyprus calling it a Turkist island and suggested replacing it with Corfu to honor the Paris treaty.
A northern observer notes that high altitude fosters silence among men who must conserve breath for breathing. He says repeated exposure trains quietness, leaving individuals deep in thought and less inclined to talk at night.
The text notes Spaniards and their descendants as ardent gamblers in Europe and the Americas, Haussas among African tribes as close rivals to Chinese, and Kanaka tribes in the South Seas who gamble bones on cowrie shells used as dice, risking bones as a final bet.
A Pittsburg Press cartoon caption mocks a school board director while a dialogue hints at classroom discipline. The Washington Star critiques literary women and novelist ideas, while a Time note reflects on paradoxes of past, present, and future.
The article notes the harsh damp Japanese winter and locals’ minimal efforts to combat it. It describes thin wooden houses with paper panel doors, open layouts, hibachis used only for fingertip warmth, and the prevalence of mud outside shops and bareheaded women, highlighting contrasting indoor cold.
Eben B. Rexford advises amateur gardeners on easy fern domestication. Choose young plants with soil on their roots, provide shade, light soil, and extra woodland soil. Wrap in a basket, water thoroughly, plant after sunset, then shade and water if sunny next day. Some fronds may die, but careful lifting and proper shade and moisture preserve the plant.
In the Travailes of Edward Webb a famed anecdote depicts two wild men said to dwell in Prester John’s court and Constantinople. Each is chained to a post and fed a daily quarter of raw flesh as punishment for offences, with long unkempt hair and neck restraints to prevent them from harming others.
Pon Palanca, wealthy Chinese Spaniard, offered General Weyler gifts to win favor in Manila. He bought two necklaces at $20,000 each and sent both to Mrs Weyler. She replied she could not choose and kept both, sending thanks for the splendid pieces.
A New York Mail and Express piece describes Chinese inns with mud walls and beds spanning the room. A paper window hides holes taped by the host, meals of rice and tea, and a single price under the European plan totaling about five cents for traveler plus two servants.
A Fordham car crowd laughs at a boastful man claiming a patented pocket watch chain trick to deter pickpockets. At Wendover avenue the same man discovers his watch is missing after a spectator reveals the contraption failed.
A testimonial promotes DeWitt's Early Risers as effective for constipation and sick headache. A Houston reader credits the pills with improving family health and notes Bell's Pharmacy as the seller.
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